skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US used to guarantee 5,184,000 cycles per day. That’s not, like, 1% or anything comparable, that’s zero (with temporary deviations). Any clock which referenced line frequency would be dead accurate over the long-term. There’s a system called Time Error Correction (TEC) which would do this (refer to WEQ-006 and the like). Obviously this error is measured relative to some reference clock.

I’m not sure what the current status is, but my understanding is that there are efforts to retire this system and allow the speed to drift more.
Tell that to the chinese netizens
There hasn't been any significant "crazy liberal" politics in this country for many decades, at the very least.

"Crazy liberal" would be things like actual in-national-office politicians advocating for nationalizing all businesses, seizing the assets of the rich, etc.

Advocating for all people to have basic human rights guaranteed to them is not "crazy liberal," it's common sense and common decency.
You can host it yourself at any of the tiers. Paying for GitLab doesn't necessarily imply SaaS GitLab.
Wow, that's crazy. I use over 1TB a day. Forever thankful for Google Fiber.
Sorry that it doesn't work :( Murphy law on launch day I would say...

Right now all our users self-host and the whole project is meant to be self-hosted for data privacy and security reasons.

Do you want to join our slack (https://slack.airbyte.io)? We can help you on the resolution!
Interesting. So, basically, it sounds like you had some dial-out modems hooked up, and some kind of database of other BBS numbers, kind of like a routing table, except you basically offloaded the actual routing to the phone company? Then, you could call out to the other BBS and switch the user's display to show the external BBS rather than yours?

If so, that's an interesting idea, but it kind of sounds like a good way for your users to run your phone bill up rather than theirs, while possibly not even engaging with your BBS at all. (For those who aren't familiar, back in the BBS days, you had to actually pay for "long distance" phone calls. And, "long distance" often wasn't very far away.)

Do I have it right, or was it something different?
I've had FIOS service since 2007 or so here in SoCal and I can count the outages over this period on one hand.
Yes. I suppose time will tell if it was a good bet or not.
>objectively clearer terminology

Sorry but I find this claim (which I've heard from others too) ridiculous. "Blacklist" is an actual common English word in the dictionary. "Denylist" is an incredibly awkward-sounding neologism without any context or history behind it. There is no way that "denylist" is the "objectively clearer" one here.
I think I get what you're trying to say.

But it does not really explain certain phases of this process, in the beginning, where cells are dividing exponentially and suddenly a fold appears, and simultaneously many cells, many being far apart, start behaving differently from other cells just next to them.

So whatever chemistry or physics foundation helps achieve that, it has this capacity to be very selective (these cells far apart do it, but these ones next to them don't), i.e. it is not temperature, acidity/base concentration, pressure, or other basic physics, because these phenomena don't have this kind of selectivity.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17141024
The second you charge you cut out a large chunk of your audience. The second you cut out a large chunk of your audience you give up what makes Twitter useful. Facebook has the same issue, if only 10% of your friends are on there, why would you want to be there?
Why Red Hat killed CentOS–a CentOS board member speaks
Recommendation for Jira replacement?

Preferably with an emphasis on speed?
So keep the original message when you retweet. That doesn't seem like an insurmountable amount of conceptual complexity.
I too can quote something instead of addressing the topic of discussion. “Shimmy shimmy ya shimmy ya shimmy yay.”
If you live in the Bay Area chances are plenty of others do the same thing.
I installed Magic Lasso and Firefox independently, and also together, and together they were basically perfect.

(It’s been 2 years or so, for all I know, they have both advanced to the point of being sufficient alone - but I did not experiment, since everything just works so well)
It supports the FIDO2 standard so if your password manager supports FIDO2 it should work :)
As someone who grew up in the 80s with the fullblown AIDS crisis, this really is a testament to human ingenuity. When we were kids, this sounded like the end of the world: a virus that attacks the immune system itself. It was so terrifying to hear about such a horrible disease that had no cure, and was so insidious that we couldn't even create a vaccine to stop it.

In a few decades we as a species have found a way not only to completely eradicate it to undetectable levels (it still hides in cells to protect itself) but now we are at a monthly injection.

The way we have created a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 is also absolutely incredible. It's great to be alive these days, now if only we can get a firm solution over cancer and other diseases like dementia, etc!
Twitter acquires Substack-competitor Revue
Ask HN: Anyone else notice iPhone autocorrect is absolute rubbish?
I’m surely not looking back with Rose tinted glasses am I? It used to be so much better ... it used to recognise the words I use and more often than not it picked up my mistakes and let me just carry on but it just seems to be getting worse and worse. I’ll be typing something fairly innocuous and it’ll suggest a name from my phone book of somebody I haven’t contacted in years or it will insist on turning fairy cogent sentences into nonsense. Like why? I heard that a while ago they replaced whatever it was that worked with some kind of machine learning algorithm but here’s the thing it just doesn’t learn I’m having to correct it again and again for frequently used words - even T9 was better at this stage. Everyone I know is having similar problems and I can’t understand how this isn’t more of a thing? Maybe it’s to do with anytime you search for anything on the topic you’ve to go through pages and pages of linkspam and apples own support forums are ghost towns filled with disingenuous sock puppets pretending everything is just fine. I’ve come across a couple of stack exchange and Reddit posts but nobody there seems to be any the wiser. Surely there’s some smart guys on here who have some idea what’s going on and is there any hope ever of apple demonstrating any awareness of this or any willingness to fix it? I mean can we not just go back to what they had in 2012? That worked fine!
two people, both solving a puzzle.
The first person (static typing) has some pieces and looks at
the second person (dynamic typing), who shouts "finished!" but the puzzle is completely wrong.
>What little money they have doesn't get invested, but spent frivolously.

The implication you're making here is that these people wouldn't mind losing $500/year, because it's otherwise being spent "frivolously". I don't think this is true because if you're spending it on something, you're getting joy out of it, otherwise you wouldn't be spending money on it in the first place. For reference, $500 can buy you a game console or several games, which can provide you with tens or hundreds of hours of entertainment.

If it's really the case that the $500/year is being spent frivolously (ie. being spent on things that don't bring joy), then the correct course of action would be some sort of intervention that forces them to save, so they receive a large enough lump sum that can be used productively. We sort of see this happen with tax refunds, where people are basically forced to save throughout most of the year, the IRS gives it back at the end of the year, and they spurge the refund on a big purchase.

>Doesn't it make sense that the utility curve is convex, not concave - that $500,000 is more than 1,000 times better than $500, when compared to $0?

What makes you think that? I think it's generally accepted that money has a diminishing returns on happiness. I guess if you go to the extremes there's some ranges where it doesn't apply (eg. it's hard to do anything fun with a $5 bill), but there's also nothing preventing you from saving up the money.

>After all, suppose that $500 was a year's spare income. Even saving for most of a lifetime would only yield $20-30,000, nothing like enough for many of the opportunities that half a million would make possible.

You're off by a factor of 2. Factoring in a 6% inflation adjusted return, you end up with a return of $77,380 if you do this for 40 years.
Love it!

What's the cheapest clock you can purchase (used or new) where you can still do a similar experiment (i.e. that's accurate enough to measure dilatation over a day/week/month period of time)?
Kiwi browser on android has that
A comment that spawns a lengthy subthread of meta trying to parse out what the commenter actually meant, why precisely they are being downvoted, etc, is bad. As is the subthread of meta.
Not exactly jaw-dropping but...when I tried an iPad with an Apple Pen and the Procreate app for the first time, I was hugely impressed by the drawing experience. The pen was smooth, responsive and sensitive to pressure and tilt. This felt like the most natural experience created so far to mimicking the pencil and other mediums from real life.

I never imagined that the iPad would overtake traditional digital drawing tablet screens in the popularity stakes. But today, you would be hard pressed to find an illustrator who doesn't have an iPad and Apple Pen (and a copy of Procreate).
See https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle and how the Internet Archive is using it:

https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-fo...
I assume they are hoping at least 1 out of 5 bronze users will transition to silver and increase net profits. But still... we just transitioned from BitBucket to GitLab because the $4 self-hosted tier was just too good a deal. $20 seems a bit steep considering we are using our own hardware for hosting, CI, etc. I really hope we don't transition back to BitBucket...
I've been a big user of plex for a long time--and this seems like a very good direction for them to go in, especially the arcade console portion.

I'm curious though how this will work on all the different devices. One of the benefits of plex is that it's available on everything--iOS, roku, samsung TV, apple TV, you name it. However, most of those controls are not meant for arcade games.

If anyone from the plex team is reading this--I'd love to hear if there's any plans for controller integration or anything?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 677, in urlopen
File "site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 392, in _make_request
File "http/client.py", line 1252, in request
File "http/client.py", line 1298, in _send_request
File "http/client.py", line 1247, in endheaders
File "http/client.py", line 1026, in _send_output
File "http/client.py", line 966, in send
File "site-packages/docker/transport/unixconn.py", line 43, in connect
FF is my main browser as well, and the only place where I've ever had to switch to Chrome is for our ERP system's web-based GUI; apparently Rocket, the engine it's based on, has some known issue where it doesn't accept certain letters when input from the keyboard as lowercase. I have no idea why that is, but I still use FF for everything else without incident. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh, Plex. Bless you for trying to move beyond your customer base that serves huge amounts of pirated video, I do hope you succeed (I say this sincerely as a lifetime pass holder).

An aside but I do find it darkly comic that we're now streaming retro games. The ROMs are at most a few MB big but this service will burn through that in seconds.
This is getting a bit off-topic, but there are good reasons why biometric data is especially sensitive.

For example, the GDPR emphasizes the "right to be forgotten". If something bad happened to you, you may not want to be forever defined by that event. A kidnapped person might not want to be forever known as just a crime victim. So they can ask Google to remove mentions of their name, and they can even legally change their name as a last resort.

But if eg. Facebook stored their face measurements and then automatically tagged them in a newly uploaded photo all that would be pointless.

So it makes sense to treat certain data as more sensitive.

At the same time, the GDPR doesn't want to go overboard with regulation. Name and address are data that lots of businesses need to process -- eg. every online store needs to collect customer name and address and pass it on to payment providers, shipping companies, etc. It would be really inconvenient if you'd need explicit permission for each use ("Do you consent that I can tell the post office where to deliver your package?").

Sure, someone may find a way to abuse a list of names and addresses, but it's just not as sensitive as other data.

I think the GDPR actually strikes a great balance between protecting people's privacy and not inconveniencing businesses. If you only collect and process data that's absolutely necessary for providing your service, the GDPR won't inconvenience you much.
My favorite green is not listed there: leek, I love the green parts (still eat the white part, but later), and raw. Onion leaves as well are excellent. Don't throw them away!
You can. You can play the the env variable: API_URL

For example if you have a reverse proxy that serves both the webapp and the api you can just launch with:
API_URL=/api/v1/ docker-compose up
For the SS-4 form, to get the Employer Identification Number, you have to either make a phone call (fairly long, half na hour in my case), send a fax (and get the EIN in 4 days) or apply by email and... wait 4-5 weeks! [0]

[0] https://www.irs.gov/instructions/iss4
This is not something that should require a plugin. Each plugin is an additional source I need to trust.
After the SolarWinds Hack, We Have No Idea What Cyber Dangers We Face
Another component, I think, is the difference between being able to work on whatever you want vs. having to follow a roadmap dictated by project leadership. Other commenters have touched on this (pointing out the decline of community orientation, rise of corporate oversight, or the fading glamour, for example), but no one has identified it directly.

The article points out that we collectively re-examined Brook's rule, going from "adding more engineers to a project makes it ship later" to "if you need to get more work done, go attract more contributors." I think the evidence shows it's more nuanced.

If you have a large amount of potential tasks and a large pool of potential contributors, and little strong preference for which tasks get done (OSS in the 90's maybe) then highly self-motivated people can pick up work they find interesting or which are useful for them. You can then avoid the exponential explosion of communication/coordination overhead by empowering those individual contributors to make their own decisions about how that work should be done. This is how OSS can scale to hundreds of contributors.

Once you introduce some sort of top-down planning that dictates which tasks are important, the blessed approaches, strict coding patterns etc. then you demotivate a large number of contributors who don't share the top-down priorities and you have to pay the exponential overhead cost of distributed coordination to enforce the top-down priorities.
> why can't the CGM just have its own display

So I can check my blood sugar without taking my shirt off.
Those about:config and chrome:flags fixes are only useful for us hackers. You cannot ask your user base to change the deep settings of your browser. For apps it either works out of the box or it does not.
What the duck are you talking about?!

(Sorry, couldn’t help myself - it’s been a long day)
Interesting concept, but I doubt it will go anywhere with the pricing structure for just Atari games and I guess it doesn't work with a plex client on your tv/streaming box besides appletv and maybe the new google tv.
Local-First Development with Firebase Emulator
I throughly recommend Jellyfin if you want a media server that doesn’t track your viewing habits and so on. I’ve been using for the past year or so.

https://jellyfin.org
Please don't.
Unless you are willing to pay for the services you are using for free now, ads is what keeps them "free".

You can object to being targeted based on your browsing habits, but don't stop ads altogether.
Review: Principles of Mathematical Analysis
Enabling the future of academic research with the Twitter API
UWaterloo is one of the most rigorous schools in Canada, particularly in CS, math and science subjects. A six-figure job in America is pretty much the only light at the end of the tunnel for them.

Sometimes Waterloo kids take friendly jabs at the other school in the city, Wilfried Laurier. But the image of the two schools couldn't be more different. WLU is the party school that grades on a curve. Waterloo is much harsher academically, and the jokes and memes are usually focused on CS/Math kids having no friends, playing DoTA and waiting for their summer placements in SV.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Airbyte is mainly an EL to be used with other schedulers? The scheduler will have to provide, internally or externally, the logic and parameters to the nodes that drive Airbyte connectors?
I’ve already seen websites which I (cynically) assume exploit this new-found aversion I and many others have to green buttons in cookie pop-ups by using differing colour schemes, e.g. https://hltv.org, whose “Allow all cookies” button is actually blue, whilst “Allow selection” is green.

“TrustArc” is a funny name considering it and its pals have obliterated any trust I had in this stuff.
> because we have notice less drive activity can lighten failure rates

It's a rite of passage to experience a second drive failure during RAID rebuild/ZFS resilvering.

I got to experience this when I built a Synology box using drives I had around and ordering new ones.

One of the old drives ate itself and I had to start over. Then I did the math on how long the last drive was going to take, realized that since it was only 5% full it was going to be faster to kill the array and start over a 3rd time. Plus less wear and tear on the drives.
If you think that's confusing, I had two professors in grad school who were married and shared the same last name. She had a PhD when I started there, so I called her "Doctor," but he didn't, so I called him "Steve." Well, Steve later got his PhD, so I was incredibly confused at that point.

We collectively resolved the dilemma by all agreeing to be on a first name basis. Now that I've spent significant time in industry and have worked with more people with PhDs than were in my department in grad school, I've come to realize I was being a little bit silly. In my experience, at least once you get to the graduate level, anybody who insists on being called "doctor" seems a little full of it to me. That said, I still think it's appropriate for undergrads to call their professors "doctor," when applicable, and I was always careful to do so whenever I was in the presence of any undergrads.
James Mickens on Javascript:

https://vimeo.com/111122950

Here's a stupid, simple Vimeo downloader instead of a using the massive, slow starting youtube-dl

#!/bin/sh
# usage: curl https://vimeo.com/123456789 | $0
x=$(curl -s `grep -m1 -o https://player.vimeo.com/video/[^\"?]*|sed 's>$>/config>'`|grep -o https://[^\"]*mp4|sed -n \$p)
y=${x%/*};y=${y##*/};exec curl -so $y.mp4 $x

More from Mickens:

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/webapps10/tech/full_pap...

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1403_02-08_mickens.pdf

Unlike Mickens, I cannot save the world, and I am not telling anyone else what to do or not to do, but I made the web fast for myself. Hence I am very skeptical of claims that "the web is slow". Web servers, the network and computers are plenty fast and still getting faster. I do not define "the web" as certain popular browsers, CSS, Javascript, etc. or whatever web developer tell me it is. Those are someone else's follies. I define it as hyperlinks (thus, a "web") and backwards compatible HTML. Stuff that is reliable and always works. To "make the web fast", I follow some simple rules. I only load resources from one domain, I forgo graphics, and I do not use big, complex, graphical, "modern" web browsers to make HTTP requests.

I do not even use wget or curl (only in examples on HN). I generate the HTTP myself using software I wrote in C for that purpose and send using TCP clients others have written over the years. There are so many of them. With a "modern" SSL-enabled forward proxy or stunnel, they all work with today's websites. "Small programs that do one thing well", as the meme goes.

Obviously, I still need the ever-changing, privacy-leaking, security risk-creating, eye-straining, power-consuming, time-wasting, bloated, omnibus browsers for any sort of serious transaction done with web, e.g., commerce, financial, etc. However that is a small fraction of web use in my case.

For me, using the web primarily comprises searching, reading and downloading. I never need Javascript for those tasks. I can do those them faster without the popular broswers than I can with them. The less interaction the better. I use automation where I can because IMO that is what computers were made for. "The right tool for the job", as the meme goes.

To think how much time and energy (kwH) has been devoted to trying to make Javascript faster as a way to make websites faster is, well, I won't think about it. Those working in the "software industry" and now "tech" are highly adept at creating the problems they are trying solve. Unfortunately today as we try to rely on software and the web for important things, we all have to suffer through that process with them.

By not using the popular browsers for a majority of web use, I have minimised the suffering of one user: me. The web is fast.
I dusted off my X61 this past week. Repasted, threw a cheap SSD in, and newer mPCIE Wifi card. After playing around with undervolting and fan control it idles silently. Battery life on the 6 cell is 5-6 hours light use.

It was a pretty amazing package for that sort of power in 2007, and it's still a joy to use -- especially with modern improvements.

Now if I could just find a nice SXGA+ screen...
I use it for about half a dozen apps. Azure Portal, Youtube Music, SoundCloud, Google Cloud Platform, Twitter, Teamwork, and this chat app I maintain. And I keep them pinned to my taskbar. I love this feature.
Can someone explain how this is manipulation? Users on WSB saw the potential for a short squeeze and bought on it (it's a common trading strategy to play highly shorted stocks) and they told other users about the idea. Large investors like Ryan Cohen and Michael Burry were on this trade, too, for a long time.
I thought we ate the greens we do because we saw other animals eating them and decided they were safe to eat (from as the article puts it, chemical & physical weapons) based on that. From there, we probably selected seeds from the tastiest/easiest to harvest plants to replant, and thus that's how we ended up where we are today (or at least before we figured out more advanced GMO techniques).

I thought that was the direction this article would end up going. I mean, could we or banana trees have evolved differently so that we wound up eating the banana leaves and not just using them as wrappers? Would our teeth have to look like a squirrel's? Would the bananas themselves have to be different for the tree to grow so that leaves are tasty to us?